The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-10-14
LOCAL NEWS.
,tober has two full moons.

In another column the First National
Bank publishes its regular report.
The October term of the Salem County
Courts convenes on Tuesday next.
The old eight-day clock sold at the sale
of personal property of the late Joseph
Engle brought $50.
The crowds attending the Mt. Holly
Fair delayed the late train on our road
every night this week.
Rev. J. r. Price, of Quinton, preached
an excellent sermon in the Sharptown NJ.
E. Church last Sunday morning.
The Salem County Temperance Alliance
will meet in Reform Association Hall, Sa-
lem, on Wednesday, November I'd.
The annual meeting of the Salem County
Bible Society will be held in the Nj. E.
church at Elmer on Thursday, Oct. 9th.
The regular meeting of the Board Of
Agriculture of Salem county will be held
i'll McAllister's Hall, Woodstown, on we'd
nesday, October goth.
En- Lee Dee, the sorrel colt, which trOt-
ted at the Woodstown Fair this year, has
been sold by Z. j. Davis, of Clayton, her
owner, to a Philadelphia gentleman for
$1,000.
Rev. e. II. Durell, of our town, is the
possessor of a cranberry bog in Cape May
county which will yield this year about
five thousand bushels, the largest crop in
that section Of the county.
Richard Pedrick. who moved from this
place to Paulsboro to clerk for James
Thompson, merchant, has bought the
store stand of Mr.. Thompson and will con-
tinue the business under his own manage
ment.
At the meeting on Saturday afternoon of
the executive committee of the Prohibi-
tionists, to fill the vacancy on the Prohi-
bition ticket for Senator, Harmon Hitch
ner, Of Pittsgrove, was selected for the
position.
A good watch dog that had always
stayed on the premises of its master, who
resides in Woodstown, disappeared a few
nights ago and the whereabouts of the
missing dog is not known. 1t is thought
that the animal has been lured off and
killed.
The Newark .burnal says: 'The new
ballot-poxes do not look as if they were
exactly what they have been cracked up to
be. They appear to be crude contrivances,
and are certainly not worth anything like
$25 each. The law ordering the purchase
ofthe new boxes is a humbug, and in that
respect resembles some other acts en- the
statute book"
John johnson, of Auburn, was arrested
by Marshall Duffy on Saturday night.
johnson said at his hearing on Sunday
morning that he was being annoyed
by three men and because he made
a certain remark to them he was taken to
the lookup. The Mayor, however, thought
from the actions and appearance OF the
prisoner the officer had not arrested him
without sufficient cause. lie was released
on payment of a fine of $500 and costs.
OF the 925 sulky plows shipped to this
place by the Cahill Sulky Plow Company
this year, Mr.. Finn says his men have sold
els of these machines. Isaac Wiley, OF
Lower Penn's Neck, has assisted the team
drivers by riding around with them and in
PRODUCING the pillow, which Mr.. Wiley in
forms the reporter gives good satisfaction.
The agent states that he has disposed OF
his plows to the most experienced and
practical class Of farmers in this section.
Diphtheria has lately increased in
variou parts of New Jersey, and DR.. +.
M. Hunt, Secretary of the Board Of
Health, think ibis is largely due to damp
cellars which are suddenly heated in the
fall. This theory has been verified for
several years by reports from various places
where the disease has ragged. TIT Doctor
says that, during the summer, in many eel
lars a good deal of vegetable matter is
allowed to decay, and when the fires are
started in the fall this decayed matter is
stirred up and mingled with a peculiar
dampness which must be in the cellar, and
it prevades the entire house. This is the
cause of much of the diphtheria, aud the
Board is trying to induce people to guard
against ii.